cottage industry

英 [ˌkɒtɪdʒ ˈɪndəstri]

美 [ˌkɑːtɪdʒ ˈɪndəstri]

n.  家庭手工业

牛津词典

noun

• 家庭手工业
  a small business in which the work is done by people in their homes
  1. Weaving and knitting are traditional cottage industries.
     编织和针织是传统的家庭手工业。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (尤以编织或陶器等为主的)家庭手工业，作坊式小工业
  Acottage industryis a small business that is run from someone's home, especially one that involves a craft such as knitting or pottery.
  1. Bookbinding is largely a cottage industry.
     装订业主要是一种家庭手工业。

英英释义

noun

• small-scale industry that can be carried on at home by family members using their own equipment

双语例句

• Bookbinding is largely a cottage industry.
  装订业主要是一种家庭手工业。
• Economic relations between the US and China have become so mutually dependent and potentially destructive that a cottage industry has built up to give them a name.
  美国与中国之间的经济关系已变得如此相互依赖和极具潜在破坏性，以至于一个小行业应运而生，竞相为这一关系取名。
• A veritable cottage industry of comparison-spewing institutions has emerged, this author not excepted.
  一个名副其实的由从事比较的机构组成的作坊式行业已然成形，笔者也不能袖手其外。
• Porcelain and pottery making as a cottage industry is scattered all over China.
  陶瓷制造作为乡村手工业遍及全国。
• Espensen's father ran a cottage industry making model planes, and when she was a student she reluctantly helped out, packing the kits and posting them out.
  埃斯佩森的爸爸管理着制作飞机模型的家庭手工业。当她还是学生的时候，她很勉强地帮忙，打包装备，再邮寄出去。
• Finding animals that engage in the human activity of tool use has become a bit of a cottage industry.
  查找参与使用工具的人类活动的动物已经变得有点属于家庭手工业的范畴了。Bing的结果：查找从事的工具使用的人类活动的动物已成为一间小屋工业一点。
• The first part primarily illustrates the analysing for the history origin about agriculture socialism, namely, small agriculture combined with cottage industry is occupying the main position in the whole social economy over a long period of time.
  第一部分主要是阐述党对农业社会主义产生历史渊源的分析，即小农业和家庭手工业相结合的自给自足的自然经济在整个社会经济中长期占主要地位。
• The cottage industry of Fed-watchers will pick two things in particular out of this book, one of which is not even really the province of central bankers.
  美联储观察人士会从这本著作里挑出两件事，其中一件甚至并不属于央行行长的管辖范围。
• As such, a cottage industry of inspirational business advice has sprouted online, full of aphorisms that combine self-help and tough love.
  正因为如此，一个致力于提供励志商业建议的作坊式产业已经在网上破土而出，它充满了集自助和严厉之爱于一身的格言警句。
• 'I feel that same energy here that was about back then,' he explained. 'It's not a big corporate culture, mainly a cottage industry.'
  如今在这里我感觉到和当年一样的活力，他解释道，这并不是一种大企业文化，它关乎的是小企业小作坊。